Maya for 3D Printing - Rapid Prototyping
In this course we're going to look at something a little different, creating technically accurate 3D printed parts.
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02-02-2005
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Help modelling an umbrella opening and closing?? Any tutorials??
I haven't even started modelling this yet, as I was going to do it using my regular 3D CAD software.
But I think Maya is alot better to use, because I want to show the components of an umbrella moving.
I have an initial question before I start.
I'll be needing to use parent and child components because there will be just one object in the umbrella that I will actually move, and everything else will follow (like in an umbrella).
Other components will be attached to the one moving element using 'Hinges' , so that all other components follow it when it moves.
The hinges will be fixed but will have a flexible movement.
I've never done anything to do with dynamics or animation before, although I can probably model it without too much difficulty.
Is it going to be difficult??
1) Is it enough to make the one moving element a parent and everything else children. And how do I control the movement of all the child components.
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02-02-2005
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02-02-2005
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I'm modelling it in Microstation at the moment, but I thought it might be nice to try and do it in Maya as well, to learn a bit of dynamics, because I don't know anything.
I can manage the modelling in Maya (just about), but I haven't done anything to do with animation.
Maybe there's a tutorial around that deals with the same issues as animating an umbrella???? Perhaps I should start trying out something a bit easier first.......
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03-02-2005
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03-02-2005
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I love Maya because you can take a surface and distort it, stretch it,.....in fact do almost anything with it.....which you can't with microstation.
I have Maya 6, but it isn't too difficult to model it in Maya again, it's just the dynamics/animation side that I'm trying to get to grips with.
Also, I find it difficult to navigate in Maya. One of the best things about Microstation, is the way you can snap to an object then move the cursor to any area on the scene by pressing 'O' for origin, and then move the cursor with a device called 'accudraw', which is a brilliant invention.
This means you can snap and move anywhere on the screen. You can't do this with Maya.
Also, snapping one object to another object is alot more precise in Microstation.
If someone combined Maya and Microstation, it would be absolutely brilliant!!!
Also, if anyone could recommend any good books to learn Maya I'd be grateful. (not complete newbie)
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03-02-2005
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Maya is very good though i think the modelling is less intuative than alot of apps.
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